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A memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organisation of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.
'...a dazzling performance, one of the author's very best books... The best and most enjoyable political memoir I have read for years'. The Times

'Thoroughly enjoyable... a dazzling entertainment, a tour de force of historical imagination, a devastating analysis of America's first principals'
NEW YORK TIMES

'One of the most brilliant, most radical and most subversive pieces of writing to emerge from America in recent years'.
New Statesman

In thirty odd 'interviews' - with Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, James Earl Ray, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, and Kilgore Trout, among others - Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio.